Indiana’s legislators couldn’t find it in their hearts to pass a law that would protect vulnerable children against bullying in our schools. But at least 20 of them found the time to do a little bullying of their own.
Developers are catering to nontraditional renters by building units resembling upscale condos.
Cynthia Lane turns the Cabaret at the Columbia Club into a Prohibition-era drinkery for “The Back Room: A Night at the Speakeasy,” March 24. Details here.
The acclaimed Lincoln Center production of “South Pacific” is re-created in a non-Equity tour coming to IU Auditorium March 27-28. Details here.
A free March 26 “Dynamic Duos” faculty concert at the University of Indianapolis features collaborative work. Details here.
Violinist Larry Shapiro performs in a free faculty violin concert March 27 at Butler University’s Robertson Hall. Details here.
NCAA swimming championships being held at the IU Natatorium this week kick off six years of collegiate swimming championships that are expected to generate millions of dollars for the local economy.
Former Indianapolis Colt Peyton Manning’s arrival in Denver is already driving up Broncos ticket prices and improving their odds of winning the Super Bowl.
After being pursued by teams around the NFL, the quarterback with four MVP awards is headed to the land of John Elway and Tim Tebow, agreeing to a contract with Denver that’s expected to be worth about $96 million over five years.
If Peyton Manning succeeds in Denver it will cast a shadow over Indianapolis that Colts owner Jim Irsay will be unable to outrun or outlive.
Indianapolis-based Prosolia Inc. has licensed technology from the estate of John B. Fenn, a chemistry professor who won the 2002 Nobel Prize for developing new mass spectrometry. Prosolia makes instruments that can identify chemicals on paper, skin, fluids and other surfaces. The eight-person firm hopes the technology allows it to launch new products next year to broaden its portfolio. Prosolia CEO Justin Wiseman said the Fenn technology “opens up less-penetrated markets in environmental, security, medical and food chemistry. We foresee several new product innovations from the Fenn technology, which we plan to commercialize in the near future."
Carmel-based CNO Financial Group Inc. has agreed to repay five customers more than $1 million that a former independent insurance agent stole from them, according to a report by A.M. Best Co. Jasmine Jamrus-Kassim sold annuities for Chicago-based Bankers Life and Casualty Co., a subsidiary of CNO Financial. She was arrested in March 2011 after an investigation by Washington state insurance regulators and has now been sentenced to six years in prison. The victims, age 74 to 90, thought the money was being reinvested but Kassim instead spent it to pay for online psychics, clothes, jewelry and a trip to Mexico, according to records from the Washington investigation.
Endocyte Inc. will submit its ovarian cancer drug EC145 for European market approval in the third quarter after the European Commission granted it "orphan drug" status. The submission means West Lafayette-based Endocyte could have its first commercial product as early as 2013. European regulators granted EC145 orphan status because large numbers of women have ovarian cancers that do not respond to typical chemotherapy treatments. And no new drug has been approved to treat ovarian cancer in 10 years. The European Commission also granted orphan status to an imaging agent Endocyte has developed, called EC20, which lights up ovarian tumors in women that have a genetic variation that makes them bond hungrily to folate. That’s important because EC145 is a combination of a powerful chemotherapy agent and folate, so that it enters cancerous cells but does not enter healthy cells. That allows EC145 to be more deadly to cancer, without serious side effects, than patients can tolerate with traditional chemotherapy agents.
A four-physician OB/GYN practice has merged with Indiana University Health Ball Memorial after a long-standing partnership. The Voss Center for Women of Muncie joined the IU Health system March 1. In addition to its four doctors, the practice includes four nurse practitioners. Hospitals are increasingly employing physicians, as financial pressures increase on independent practices and as reimbursement from public and private health plans encourages doctors and hospitals to work more closely to improve patient health.
Peyton Manning wants to play for the Denver Broncos in Act II of his outstanding career. A person briefed on negotiations said the NFL's only four-time MVP called Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams and told him that he had picked the Broncos.
The homeowners association for the 70-unit Hudson wants the building’s developer, Kosene & Kosene, to pay to repair damage it alleges was caused by faulty construction.
Franklin is planning to raise $120,000 by renting the performing arts center and middle school auditorium this year — six times what the district made in rental fees four years ago.
Indiana would have received nearly $300 million in additional funding if the proposal by Sen. Dan Coats had been successful.
State lawmakers finished their work in Indianapolis this month, but the end of the 2012 General Assembly signaled the beginning of crunch time for a full-time staff charged with sorting out what happened during the contentious short session.
If we go about directing the energy and confidence gained during our super moment into an effort downsized by fear of failure, and constrained by limited resources, hampered by political partisanship, and burdened by intra-regional rivalries, and what-is-in-it-for-me agendas, then we will not fully realize the potential of this super moment.
Rick Reilly, a fabulous sportswriter, points out that without Manning, there is no Lucas Oil Stadium, no Indy-hosted Super Bowl, no brand new JW Marriott downtown.
“Scorecasting” authors say teams consistently place excessive value on high draft picks and routinely overpay, in terms of current and future picks, to move up the draft order.
Feel free to congratulate former Indiana Pacers star Mel Daniels on his long-overdue selection to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
It is imperative for the integrity of higher education that the faculty control the curriculum.
Rates are set to rise as insurers increasingly note the link between older workers’ health and productivity.
